CronoDAS comments on New Year's Predictions Thread (2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 04 January 2011 01:18:07AM 7 points [-]

The unemployment rate in the United States will continue to be above 8%: 90%

"Core inflation" of the U.S. dollar (which ignores food and energy prices) shall remain below 2.0%: 80%

The fifth book in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series will be published: 5%

A superintelligent AGI will be created: Less than 1 in 1 million

The Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world: Less than 1 in 1 million

My 96-year-old grandmother survives another year: 67%

The Riemann hypothesis is proven: 1 in 5000

I qualify for the Magic Pro Tour: 1%

I get a "real job": 1%

Comment author: CronoDAS 08 January 2011 06:34:06AM 4 points [-]

My 96-year-old grandmother survives another year: 67%

Dead wrong on this one. She died a few hours ago.

Comment author: gwern 08 January 2011 06:14:18PM 2 points [-]

I was going to ask why you gave death such a low probability, but when I went to look at what the mortality rates actually said for a 96 year old female, I found that many don't even go that high: http://www.deathriskrankings.com/MortStats.aspx

Huh.

Comment author: Alicorn 08 January 2011 12:32:03PM 2 points [-]

*hugs*

Comment author: Vaniver 08 January 2011 06:56:53AM 1 point [-]

D: I'm sorry to hear that. Are you doing ok?

Comment author: CronoDAS 08 January 2011 07:07:20AM 2 points [-]

Yeah, so far. She had been mostly gone for quite a while, so...

Comment author: Kutta 08 January 2011 05:08:13PM 0 points [-]

This one and Alzheimer's greatly bother me because they are cryonics-resistant.